Anator P70 Review
Muscletech's Anator P70 claims to be "the world's most powerful DNA-activating
muscle building product ever developed", and helps you to maximize your
genetic muscle building potential. That sounds strangely familiar to Pinnacle's Juiced Protein,
which is now discontinued. Makes you raise an eyebrow doesn't it?
Juiced protein, which claimed to neutralize myostatin (a negative
regulator of muscle growth), and unleash your muscle growth potential.
We all know how that turned out - it didn't. Which is why I bring it up
here since both are marketed with similar claims, where Anator P70
claims to contain "powerful anabolic doses of gene-activating compounds
that triggers a cascade of events that strengthens the signals inside
your muscle fibers to rapidly accelerate muscle growth". Is it for
real?
I don't believe so.
Muscletech
promotes Anator P70 to activate specific genetic regulators that
increase the production of actin and myosin which make up the size and
strength of muscle fibers. Do you really believe that you can "catapult
your genetic potential into another realm where increases in muscle
size become virtually limitless"? It's amazing what a huge marketing
budget can accomplish compounded with eager consumers with limited
information and knowledge!
Anator P70 - What is it?
Granted,
I did buy Anator P70, but not because I bought into the marketing hype
of Muscletech - you know, those 4 page "ad reports" you see in
magazines? I didn't buy it with the expectation that it would catapult
my gains into another world, nor did I buy it expecting unbelievable
muscle and strength gains. And you can be sure that the bodybuilders on
the promo ads did NOT get to there level of development using Anator
P70.
So how does is it claim to work? According
to Muscletech, Anator P70 stimulates an enzyme called
phophoinositide-3-kinases (PI-3K), and Protein Kinase B (PKB) to
activate mTOR, a so called "master switch" for growth. The stimulation
of PKB acts on Forkhead box-containing protein O-subfamily (FOXO) and
is blocked from entering the nucleus. When this happens it hinders the
activity of MAFbx, a gene that causes muscle breakdown, and the
ribosomal protein p70s6k is phosphorylated by mTOR activation, which
leads muscle growth resulting from protein synthesis.
Did that make any sense at all?
Well
if it didn't, don't worry. The jest of it is that Anator P70 is
supposed to help increase muscle and strength gains. There are numerous
studies done on the phosphorylation of p70s6k where "phosphorylation is
involved in the signaling events leading to an increase in protein
accretion in human skeletal muscle following resistance training" 1. Other studies have also found that "BCAA ingestion further enhanced p70(S6k) phosphorylation 3.5-fold during recovery.2 So whatever technical information Muscletech was feeding you, it's really nothing new.
I
was unable to find any of the so called "5 years of research". They do
mention a professor Paul Greenhaff from the University of Nottingham
who has been collaborating on the research. He's a staff member at the
School of Biomedical Sciences at the University of Nottingham Medical
School. But as far as concrete research on Anator P70, I couldn't find
any.
Anator P70 Nutrition Facts
Serving Size (scoop) 2
Servings Per 16
Calories 320
Fat Calories 10
Total Fat (g) 1
Sat. Fat (g) .5
Cholesterol (mg) 10
Sodium (mg) 60
Potassium (mg) 0
Total Carbs (g) 57
Sugars (g) 28
Proteins (g) 20
Calcium (mg) 65
Iron (mg) .7
Ingredient Details:
PhenylGene 7.20 g:
-L-Phenylalanine
-Phenylalanine alpha-ketoglutarate
-Phenylalanine ethyl ester
-Phenylalanine alphaketoisovaloric acid
LeuciGene 7.20 g:
L-Leucine
Leucine methyl ester
Leucine ethyl ester
Leucine alpha-ketoglutarate
Leucine alphaketoisovaloric acid
N-acetyl leucine
GeneTOR 5.00 g:
Creatine Monohydrate
Alanine methyl ester
Alpha-ketoglutarate
As
you can see, Anator P70 is really nothing special. It's basically a
combination of protein, carbs, some extra amounts of 2 amino acids
(Leucine and Phenylalanine), and minor amounts of creatine. Speaking of
the 7.20g of Leucine per serving, does the product Leukic ring a bell?
That's right, 7.2g of leukic per serving of 6 pills. So really, a less flattering way to look at Anator P70 is that it's
basically a combination of a "weight gainer" plus Leukic, with a little
creatine added, and then repackaged, hugely hyped, and sold at an over
inflated price! However you look at it, it's just shrewd marketing.
Anator P70 Side Effects and Taste
As
far as I know, there should be no side effects taking Anator P70. The
one side effect of Anator P70 cited by some users is the "empty wallet
syndrome". =)
If you're interested in Anator P70 feedback from other users, read user reviews here.
It's a mixed bag of reviews, and from what I see, it seems like some of
the reviewers raving about Anator P70 are young individuals who
probably just started lifting. At the same time, there others who
provide some good insight in to their gains with Anator P70, and there
are also users who made no gains using it.
What's my verdict?
If
you're on a tight budget, I would probably not go out and buy a tub of
Anator P70, but if you have money to spend, then it's really a
non-issue whether to purchase it or not. But then, do you really want
to buy into all the marketing hype and pay for a ridiculously
overpriced protein supplement?
Taste-wise, it's
not very pleasant, and I think most other users will agree with me.
Anator P70 comes in 2 flavors: berry blast and orange cooler. I had the
berry blast, which is not good by any standards. It wasn't terrible,
but it just didn't taste very good. I haven't tried the orange flavor,
and probably never will, but from what I've read, it's about as bad
tasting as berry blast. There's also quite a bit of settling - so if
you tend to take your time drinking your shakes, you'll need to give it
a swirl every once awhile to pick up all the settled powder at the
bottom, which doesn't dissolve in liquid.
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